The Pop Rock and Soul Reader

• Author : David Brackett
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2009
• Total pages : 606
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader is a collection of readings that traces the evolution of American popular music from the 1920s to the present. Pulling together articles, excerpts, and critical commentary from scholarly journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and biographies, this volumeintroduces students to important social and cultural issues raised ...

• Author : David Brackett
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2013
• Total pages : 587
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Featuring over 100 readings from a wide range of sources and writers, The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader, Third Edition, provides a rich and engaging introduction to the development of American popular music and the important social and cultural issues raised by its study. The third edition brings together a vast ...

• Author : Irwin Stambler
• Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
• Release Date : 1974
• Total pages : 609
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Includes 150 photos, as well as three "special articles" and bibliography....

• Author : Theo Cateforis
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release Date : 2007
• Total pages : 360
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : The Rock History Readeris a collection of primary source material that brings to life the often contentious issues, arguments, conflicts and creative tensions that have defined rock's momentous rise and spread. The readings range from the vivid autobiographical accounts of such rock icons as Chuck Berry, Ronnie Spector, and David ...

• Author : Casey Nelson Blake,Daniel H. Borus,Howard Brick
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Release Date : 2020-01-15
• Total pages : 336
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at “the center of world awareness,” thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948 through 1963, they asked: What defined the ...

• Author : John J. Sheinbaum
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release Date : 2018-11-29
• Total pages : 304
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Over the past two centuries Western culture has largely valorized a particular kind of “good” music—highly serious, wondrously deep, stylistically authentic, heroically created, and strikingly original—and, at the same time, has marginalized music that does not live up to those ideals. In Good Music, John J. Sheinbaum explores ...

• Author : Matt Brennan
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2020-02-11
• Total pages : 384
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social history of the instrument, looks closely at key innovators in the development of the drum kit: inventors and manufacturers like the Ludwig ...

• Author : Karin Kukkonen,Sonja Klimek
• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
• Release Date : 2011
• Total pages : 279
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Metalepsis refers to the crossing of boundaries between fiction and reality in narratives. This volume provides a systematic overview of metalepsis, its types and effects, in popular culture. The contributions discuss popular fiction, fan fiction, pop lyrics, comics, films, animated cartoons, music videos, live performances and TV series from the ...

• Author : Irwin Stambler
• Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
• Release Date : 1989
• Total pages : 881
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Featuring more than 600 entries in all, this reference book covers four decades of popular music, providing information on artists' career histories, vital statistics, chart positions, and influences on the music world. Black-and-white photographs....

• Author : Alfred Publishing,Alfred Publishing Staff
• Publisher : Warner Bros Publications
• Release Date : 1994-09-01
• Total pages : 216
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Seventy-six titles including: When Will I Be Loved (The Everly Brothers 1960) * Do You Love Me (The Contours 1962) * Oh, Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison 1964) * The Tracks of My Tears (Miracles 1965) * A Place in the Sun (Stevie Wonder 1966) * Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (5th Dimension 1969)....

• Author : David Brackett
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release Date : 2016-07-19
• Total pages : 376
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people, particularly how certain ways of organizing sounds becomes integral to how we perceive ourselves and how we feel connected to some people and disconnected from others. Presenting a series of case studies ranging from race music and ...

• Author : Chris Smith
• Publisher : Greenwood
• Release Date : 2006
• Total pages : 294
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Examines the divergent paths rock music took between 1974 and 1980, discussing arena rock, West coast soft rock, ambient music, punk, and new wave, and provides a chronology, an A-Z guide to the period, and lists of top-selling recordings, important albums, and further resources, including print works, Web sites, films, and museum ...

• Author : Alfred William Cramer
• Publisher : Salem PressInc
• Release Date : 2009
• Total pages : 1804
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain...these are the people who helped shape the history of music. Their stories and others are told in Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century. This five volume set offers biographical and critical essays on over 600 musicians in just about every genre ...

• Author : Dai Griffiths
• Publisher : Icons of Pop Music
• Release Date : 2008
• Total pages : 220
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : Here to stay, and recognized by Burt Bacharach as "a great survivor," Elvis Costello has produced a large and significant body of work. This is the first book on Costello that avoids chronological presentation in favor of a thematic approach focused on music and words over the nearly 30 years that ...

• Author : Larry Starr,Christopher Alan Waterman
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2010
• Total pages : 537
• ISBN : 0987654321

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Summary : The most complete, colorful, and authoritative package of its kind, American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3, Third Edition, examines popular music in the United States from its beginnings into the 21st century. Highlighting the contributions of diverse groups, Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman trace the development of jazz, blues, ...